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Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by crazygringo on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:40AM (#23478318)
> Google tries to make the Wikipedia link as undiscoverable as possible

Huh?

If I search for "who founded the new york times", then immediately below the three-line snippet answer, is a big (not small) blue link to "The New York Times - Wikipedia". In fact, it's literally the easiest, most prominent thing on the page for me to click on. Google is helping to guide me on to visit Wikipedia for more info.

I think you're confusing the short excerpts (with have a clear, obvious Wikipedia link) with Google's Knowledge Graph results, which is a different thing and is based on many different sources.

Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by nemo on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:21PM (#23479641)
I think they're talking about the Knowledgegraph, assuming Knowledgegraph is the content in the right column. If so, they're right. The discoverability of wikipedia in that thing is poor and it's aggravating when they bury the one link I want inside text content so it's a moving target on the page in a small font.
Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by kortex on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:51AM (#23478467)
Fascinating, quoting the query changes results. Pipes represent the search field:

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|who founded the new york times|

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> Search Results

> The New York Times/Founder

> Henry Jarvis Raymond [link to google query |Henry Jarvis Raymond|]

> The New York Times was founded as the New-York Daily Times on September 18, 1851. Founded by journalist and politician Henry Jarvis Raymond and former banker George Jones, the Times was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company.

> The New York Times - Wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times]

> People also searched for...

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|"who founded the new york times"|

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> Henry Jarvis Raymond [link to google query |Henry Jarvis Raymond|]

> People also searched for...

Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by thelean12 on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:00PM (#23479373)
That's because quoting searches has a completely different meaning...

Quotes look for exact results on Google.

Re:Wikipedia Lost 3B Organic Search Visits to Google in 2019 by tasogare on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:25PM (#23479677)
> I almost always want more information, and Google tries to make the Wikipedia link as unintuitive as possible in order to keep the user on Google property.

I have exactly the same problem, so I hate those Wikipedia boxes. Half of the time I go to a Wiki page for some term then switch to another language (either because I searched an unknown word or because I’m searching for a translation) so the box don’t solve my need. The other half I want more info than what is displayed anyway. And I also find super confusing the position of the link, I have to search for it each and every time.